Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-24

in half column of innuendo spiced
with hog Latin. The paragraph
below is an average sample:
The itch Cowe'tibus seems also to have at
tackled our poor brother and also the nor
Wellington jim yjamibus, resulting in general
debility and nervous irritability that causes
him to see "boOgies' in the dark and fool
killers in every mild expression of his
friends. "its indeed sad case, my masters;
this evil of the poll" as the revised version
of Shakespeare, according to Ignatius Don
nelly, would have it.
The difference between the Times
and the JOURNAL is Just this; The
Times is an organ, the JOURNAL is
not. The democratic party has been
betrayed into sustaining ii scheme
which proposes the sacrifice by the
State and people of the canal for the
benefit of a West Virginia corpora
ton. The Times is supporting a
ticket so far ominously silent upon IL
project of vital moment to the Ca
nal counties. There has been time
enough for the gentlemen to repudi-
ate the reasonable project, but not a
whisper has been heard. And the
Times, which is one of the little
sockets in which the proposed ad-
venture turns, has never published
an editorial word one way or the
other about dispossessing this region
of the canal for the benefit of West
Virginia competition.
On the other hand, the JOURNAL,
looking the facts in the face, with
undisguised regret is obliged to con-
denim an enterprise which seeks to
despoil this and enrich Il rival re-
gron. 1t is compelled to subordinate
personal party predictions to de-
votion to home interests. In con-
test between corporations it is forced
to favor those at home.
lrvur readers see this issue as we
do no amount Of bastard Latin will
dispose OF it.
Again:
Another distressing malady of our poor
friends is GornaDpho6ia or Wilson delirimm
tremenis. This, however, only breaks out in
spots, and partakes more of the nature of
internal injury" than anything else
Personally, the JOURNAL enter
tainS no such feeling toward Messrs.
German and Willison as the Times
would intimate. But these gentle
men are public men, trusted servants,
and amenable to criticism us well as
apparently open to toadyism. They
are, by association at least, perhaps a
community of interest, connected with
the scheme which the State demo-
cratic ticket is expected to carry out.
If it succeeds, good for them, but bad
for the rest Of us; if they fail, bad
for them, good for us.
1t may signify little, therefore,
what the Journal thinks Of Messrs.
German and Wilson, CT even what
the Times thinks--as mere matter
Of fact. 1t may import something
more to the JOURNAL should it be
understood us forging along under
their displeasure. but Of one thing we
are sure, there is no bad faith toward
our own people in our course. We
are equally sure that with all its
slobber over the ticket and the
faction represented by German and
Willison-that with all the Times
attempted ridicuie in their interest,
there is hardly man in Maryland
whom the State and county bosses
despise with more sickening zest than
the editor Of the Cumberland Times.
This, by the way, not altogether to
the latter's discredit.
-s
OUR amiable friend, the Lonacon-
ing ReUje1c, thinks the JOURNAL did
not last week "give any reason what
ever for the conclusion that month
ly pay was be tier than semi-month-
ly," etc.
1t must be understood right away
that the question stated by the Re
viev has not been the issue. The re-
mark that "to the provident man the
monthly is better than the semi
monthly pay" was merely incidental,
not essential to the argument. The
real issue isis it necessary to run to
the Legislature for an Act the object
of which can us well be obtained
without? For if semi-monthly paws
be provided for by law, and the COM
panies See fit to assert their own
rights in the premises, it will take